Language Origins: Perspectives on Evolution

Maggie Tallerman

2005年5月 · OUP Oxford

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Tallerman addresses central questions in the evolution of language: where it came from, how and why it evolved, how it came to be culturally transmitted, and how languages diversified. She does so from the perspective of the latest work in linguistics, neuroscience, psychology and computer science.

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Maggie Tallerman is Reader in Linguistics at Newcastle University. She has spent her professional life in North East England, having previously taught for 21 years at the University of Durham. Her research interests centre on the origins and evolution of syntax and morphology; modern Brythonic Celtic syntax and morphology; and language typology. She is the author of Understanding Syntax (1998; second edition 2005), and has published widely on the morphosyntax of modern Welsh and Breton, as well as on language evolution. She was review editor for the Journal of Linguistics from 1994 to 2005.